Background*

Mr. Charles Robert Schwab founded Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. in 1971 and has been its Chairman since 1978. Mr. Schwab serves as Fund Manager of Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Schwab (SIS) Holdings, Inc. and Schwab International Holdings, Inc., and serves as its Chairman. Mr. Schwab served as the Chief Executive Officer of Schwab Holdings, Inc. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. from ... 2004 to 2008. He served as Chief Executive Officer of The Charles Schwab Corporation from 1986 to 1997 and from 2004 to 2008. Mr. Schwab served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Charles Schwab Corporation from 1998 to May 2003. He was Partner and Advisor of Lattice Strategies, LLC. He serves as the Chairman of Charles Schwab/Schwab funds in fund complex. He serves as the Chairman of Laudus Trust and Laudus Institutional Trust, all registered investment companies. He serves as a Director of Arrow International, Inc. and Schwab Holdings, Inc. He serves as a Director of U.S. Trust Corporation and United States Trust Company of New York. He serves as a Director of Xign, Inc. and Pearl.com LLC. He serves as a Director of TrustMark, Inc. He has been a Director of Yahoo! Inc. since June 2014. He has been a Trustee of Stanford University since 1993. He has been a Director of Transamerica Corporation since 1989. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at British-American Business Council. He served as a Director of Vodafone Americas Inc. since January 1994. He served as a Director of Siebel Systems Inc. from October 1994 to November 2004. He served as a Director of Vodafone Group Public Limited Company. He served as a Director of The Gap, Inc. from 1986 to March 2004, The Charles Schwab Trust Company until July 2001, Audiobase, Inc. until March 2002 and Vodaphone AirTouch PLC until May 2002. He is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Helen Schwab Foundation, a private foundation that supports entrepreneurial organizations working in education, poverty prevention, human services and health. Mr. Schwab also serves as chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Schwab served as the Chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy since January 22, 2008. He is the author of several books, including a completely revised and updated version of his 1998 work, Charles Schwab's Guide to Financial Independence. He is also the author of It Pays To Talk, and You're Fifty — Now What?. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Stanford University in 1959 and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1961.

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